Links for 2021-11-01
Geothermal’s Path to Relevance: Cheap Drilling: The first in a three part series detailing technology needed to make geothermal electricity economical. https://austinvernon.site/blog/drillingplan.html
Technology Streamlines Development of Gene Therapy for Genetic Blinding Disorders: “Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPSM) have developed the novel scAAVengr computational platform to identify adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors that could deliver ultra-precise and efficient retinal gene therapies for blinding disorders. The platform employs single-cell RNA sequencing to quickly screen numerous AAVs for those best-suited for gene therapy, shortening the process from years to months. The researchers found scAAVengr also performs equally well in identifying AAVs that target the brain, heart, and liver. UPSM's Leah Byrne said the platform "will allow us to translate emergent therapies that are already working for some patients into the clinic much more rapidly."” https://www.news-medical.net/news/20211019/New-technology-streamlines-the-development-of-gene-therapy-for-genetic-blinding-disorders.aspx
Just how good has CCTV surveillance got? This paper gives us a clue https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04764
Pose with Style: Detail-Preserving Pose-Guided Image Synthesis with Conditional StyleGAN https://pose-with-style.github.io/
An analysis of lemur song suggests the evolutionary roots of the rhythm might run deep https://www.newscientist.com/article/2294810-haunting-lemur-songs-have-a-rhythm-similar-to-human-music/
No evidence for cumulating socioeconomic advantage. Ability explains increasing SES effects with age on children's domain test scores https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289621000660
Jhanas and the Dark Room Problem — “…beauty is that which is compressible but has not already been compressed.” astralcodexten.substack.com/p/jhanas-and-the-dark-room-problem
“Now that development environments (ahem, repls) can run entirely in the cloud, fetching packages from a central server, unzipping them, and installing them into a filesystem seems shockingly archaic.” https://blog.replit.com/betting-on-nix